Release Date: 10/23/2001 Original Release: 2000 Format: DVD Length: 88 minutes Rating:R (MPAA) Rating Reason: strong crude sexual content, violence, language, drug use UPC: 012236115953 Studio: Artisan Entertainment
Comedies, Satire, Theatrical Release, Hollywood, Movie Stars, Film Directors
Description
John Waters follows 1998's benevolently vulgar PECKER with this reactionary story of another young artist. Cecil (Stephen Dorff) is a radical young (and arguably insane) filmmaker whose motive for creating his art stems from a violent dissatisfaction with the pandering product produced by Hollywood. Cecil and his gang of film terrorists, the Sprocket Holes (who each has a tattoo of the name of their favorite director), kidnap spoiled superstar Honey Whitlock (Melanie Griffith) at the Baltimore premiere of her new film with the intention of forcing her to star in their antistudio opus RAVING BEAUTY. When Honey sees the street credibility she gets from her association with Cecil's terrorist antics, however, she no longer has to be forced to participate in the Sprocket Holes' outlandish schemes.
Less polished than some of his previous works (SERIAL MOM, CRY-BABY) but not nearly as crude as his reputation-earning early films, DEMENTED fits somewhere in the middle of Waters's ouevre. With an anything-goes spirit that one can rarely find outside of Waters's gleeful taboo-breaking creations, DEMENTED allows true lovers of cinema to live vicariously through characters who are desperately trying to remedy the sad state of the medium at the turn of the 21st century.
DVD Features
Region 1 Keep Case - Sensormatic Single Side - Single Layer Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.78 Letterbox - 1.78 Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Additional Release Material: Trailers Featurette: COMEDY CENTRAL'S CANNED HAM: CECIL B. DEMENTED Audio Commentary: John Waters - Director Text/Photo Galleries: Production Notes Biographies: Cast and Crew
You can keep your Steven Spielberg's and Joel Schumacher's. John Waters has been my favorite director for a while now after having seen Female Trouble, Pink Flamingos, Desperate Living, Hairspray,... Read the whole review at MatchFlick
